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Example sentences for "common enough"

  • In one of the stories of Reginald of Durham we learn that a school, according to a custom then "common enough," was kept in the church of Norham on Tweed, the parish priest being the teacher.

  • If the combatants were allowed to use sharp weapons, and to put forth all their force and skill against one another, this was the joute a l'outrance, and was of common enough occurrence.

  • The word is common enough in prose, and formed part of the spoken language, for it is found in reported speech at Petronius 45 6.

  • The litotes non (haud, nec) immerito is common enough in Latin: see the many examples at TLL VII.

  • Your description of the English family in B---- made me laugh; the originals for such portraits are common enough in the world of London.

  • In England this is common enough, but rare in Ireland, and gave no very favourable impression of the philanthropy of the possessor.

  • The Mylabris chicorii, common enough in France, especially in the south, is of small size, whilst the other species are rather large.

  • The Reduvius personatus, called also Fly Bug, by Geoffroy, the old historian of the insects of the environs of Paris, is common enough in France.

  • This mongrel construction of the word that, were its justification possible, is common enough in our language to be made good English.

  • A set of men who are common enough in the world.

  • A common enough occurrence; hours of waiting in an out-patients' room frequently do more harm than the doctor's advice can remedy.

  • Common enough in the Board schools, this pursuit of knowledge on an empty stomach.

  • Thus it is common enough to find a mother complaining that her child of two or three years of age is bitterly jealous of the new baby who has come to share with him his mother's love and attention.

  • Negativism is a symptom which is common enough in certain mental disorders.

  • The contrast between dimidii homines and integri homines is common enough.

  • This is a common enough phenomenon, but it is apt to escape attention.

  • It is common enough to see a town-house annexed to a rural manor.

  • The word is of Icelandic origin and related to Boor, another word which has deteriorated and is rare as a surname, though the cognate Bauer is common enough in Germany.

  • The name de Verdun is common enough in old records for us to connect with it both the fascinating Dolly and the illustrious Harry.

  • Goda, but Ledieu is common enough in France.

  • They were keen enough business men, but had made the mistake, common enough to established power, of underrating the strength of an apparently insignificant opponent.

  • This in the old days was a common enough trick.

  • The device is common enough; but it is expensive.

  • Advance nearer to these creatures, and you will behold a wonderful sight, such as can never appear in the natural world, but is common enough in the world of spirits.

  • To delight in witnessing pain is the basest and most infernal of all our passions; but it is common enough.

  • According to my own experience, it is most plentiful in Central India, though it is common enough in the North-West Provinces.

  • The writer has never heard of it in Northern India, nor has he even seen it in Central India; in the Western Ghauts it is common enough.

  • He is common enough in Sumatra, inhabiting the dense wild woods which lie to the north of Bencoolen.


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    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
    another legend; common ancestor; common carriers; common consent; common denominator; common descent; common enough; common humanity; common justice; common level; common lodging; common parlance; common progenitor; common resident; common roads; common source; common thing; commonly found; commonly known; commonly supposed; commonly termed; commonly understood; during several; forty millions; government should; plowed under